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CELTICA. Students of Celtic philology should be interested to know that, in addition to the classified catalogue of Celtic books in the Library, the files of periodicals of Celtic interest are being examined by Mr. J. J. Jones, M.A., Deputy Keeper of Printed Books, and their contributions to Celtic subjects catalogued. The Library has, on cards, a complete author-catalogue of articles in Transactions of the Hon. Soc. of Cymmrodorion, r Cymm- rodor, Zeitschrift fur Celtische Philologie, Revue Celtique, and Etudes Celtiques. Other journals, which are not confined to Celtic subjects, e.g. Kuhn's Zeitschrift, Bezzenberger's Beitrage, Indogermanische Forschungen, Romania, Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie, and Revue Archaeologique, have also been examined and all the articles in them which bear on any branch of Celtic studies have been catalogued and included in their appro- priate place in the general classified catalogue. If, however, the present war continues for some time, one result will be that the Library will be unable, for financial and other reasons, to continue to receive all the foreign journals which it is its duty to collect, and this will result in the formation of regrettable lacunae in its catalogue of Celtica. W. LL. DAVIES. SIR JOHN RHYS CENTENARY. I imagine Rhys possessed the most extensive knowledge of Celtic matters of any man who ever lived. Everything had come under his notice words, idioms, names, tales, beliefs, customs, tribes, races, monuments Everything Celtic interested him." Thus commented the late Sir John Morris-Jones in his Sir John Rhys Memorial Inaugural Lecture, delivered to the British Academy in 1925. The memorial lectures then inaugur- ated have become a worthy and fitting tribute to a great figure of Celtic scholarship the centenary of whose birth falls this year. They are original contributions by leading specialists on various sections of Sir John Rhys's wide field of interest. These lectures are available in the annual volumes of the Proceedings of the British Academy, but the National Library also possesses copies of the following in the form of offprints Sir John Rhys,' (Sir John Morris-Jones, 1925) Linguistic Evidence and Archaeological and Ethnological Facts,' (J. Fraser, 1926); Ireland and Medieval Europe,' (Robin Flower, 1927); The Welsh Chronicles,' (Sir John Edward Lloyd, 1928) Wales and Archaeology,' (R. E. M. Wheeler, 1929); Bretons et Anglais aux Ve et VIe Siècles,' (Ferdinand Lot, 1930) Archaeology and Folk Tradition,' (H. J. Fleure, 1931); The Poems of Llywarch Hen,' (Ifor Williams, 1932); Aspects of Celtic Mythology,' (A. G. van Hamel, 1934); The Goidels and their Predecessors,' (Thomas F. O'Rahilly, 1935) 'A Survey of Research on an Early Phase of Celtic Culture,' (J. M. de Navarro, 1936) La Position Linguistique du Celtic,' (J. Vendryes, 1937) 'The Native Irish Grammarian,' (Osborn Bergin, 1938). D. MYRDDIN LLOYD. DR. BARTHOLOMEW PRICE. In November, 1939, the Library received, through the Bodleian Library, Oxford, about two thousand unbound pamphlets presented by Mr. W. Arthur Price, Teddington, from the library of his father, the late Dr. Bartholomew Price (1818-1898), Sedleian professor of natural philosophy at Oxford from 1853 to 1898 and Master of Pembroke College from 1891. (See p. 165.) This pamphlet collection consists largely of papers on mathematics and physics reprinted or offprinted from the proceedings of various scientific societies, chiefly English,